Big Day of Books Perth 2026 program announced
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
At Big Day of Books Perth on 20 June, Western Australian radio presenters will chat to Australian authors about their new books during a live broadcast literary show. Hosted by...
No newsletter on Monday
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Monday, 8 June due to the King’s Birthday public holiday. The deadline for job ads and classifieds for next Wednesday’s Weekly Book Newsletter...
Willy Lit Fest 2026 program announced
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Willy Lit Fest will run in the Williamstown Town Hall, Melbourne, from 12 to 14 June under the theme of “reflections”. The event will feature 40 sessions and almost 80...
Robinson wins 2026 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced Lenny Robinson as the winner of the 2026 UQP Quentin Bryce Award, worth $5000, for her debut novel And in the Morning. The...
Wright leaves Leading Edge; Aotearoa sales changes at Thames & Hudson and Simon & Schuster; Hachette launches new imprint
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Leading Edge Books member services manager Kaye Wright has left as part of a restructure; Thames & Hudson Australia (T&H) has made some staff changes; and announced it will move...
NZSA Ngā Kaituhi Māori Mentorship recipients announced
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Ngā Kaituhi Māori and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (NZSA) have announced the recipients of the 2026 NZSA Ngā Kaituhi Māori Mentorship program, and...
Annie’s Books on Peregian relocates
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Annie’s Books on Peregian, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has relocated. The bookshop has moved just a few doors from its original store, according to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA). Co-owner...
S&S acquires Kieran Kennedy’s “This Explains Everything”
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired This Explains Everything: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Navigating Adult ADHD by psychiatrist Kieran Kennedy. According to the publisher, the book draws on the...
Nominations open for the Australian publishing industry’s Rising Star Award
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
The Rising Star Award is a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on the incredible early-career staff who are making a significant impact in your organisation. Nominees must currently be...
Head of trade sales (parental leave), Victoria
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Hardie Grant Hardie Grant is looking for an experienced Head of Trade Sales to lead our national sales function on a 12-month parental leave contract, based in either Melbourne or...
Field account manager, New South Wales
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Simon & Schuster The Job Profile The Field Account Manager is responsible for managing a designated sales territory within NSW, including planning and maintaining a regular monthly call cycle with...
Wilkinson Publishing
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
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Bacon fiction and nonfiction shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
African Australian author Eugen Bacon is among those whose works have been shortlisted in the 2026 British Fantasy Awards. “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in...
Lewis, Daut win James Tait Black prizes
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
In the UK, Shady Lewis and Marlene L Daut have been awarded the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography, respectively. Lewis was awarded the fiction prize for the...
Allen & Unwin acquires Evonne Goolagong Cawley memoir
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Only Ever Evonne by Evonne Goolagong Cawley. In the memoir, Goolagong Cawley shares memories of her childhood in Barellan, where she grew...
Allen & Unwin acquires Zoe Foster Blake’s “Group Chat”
Monday, 1 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Group Chat by Zoë Foster Blake, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as “part...
The Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026 shortlist announced
Monday, 1 June 2026
The shortlist for the biennial Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, has been announced. The works shortlisted for the award are: Umarrah & George: Friendship...
Pantera Press acquires “The Curator” by Jonathan Butler
Monday, 1 June 2026
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to “gripping true crime investigation” The Curator by Jonathan Butler. Part murder mystery, part queer history, and part portrait of Melbourne’s art world, the...
Local authors shortlisted for UK Dagger crime writing awards
Monday, 1 June 2026
Local authors Sam Guthrie, Laura McCluskey, and Zoë Rankin are among those whose works have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) 2026 Dagger Awards. The authors were...
Aotearoa New Zealand 2026 Book Industry Awards finalists announced
Monday, 1 June 2026
The finalists in Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2026 Book Industry Awards, presented by Booksellers Aotearoa NZ and the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ), have been announced....
DANZ Children’s Book Award 2026 shortlists announced
Monday, 1 June 2026
The 2026 shortlists for the DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced by the Australian School Library Association (ASLA). Chosen from previously announced longlists,...
Simon & Schuster acquires Vasiliou’s “Better Man”
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Better Man by Ben Vasiliou, in a deal negotiated by Daniel Pilkington of The Pilkington Agency. The “practical guide to...
ABC Radio National countdown to focus on Australian books
Thursday, 28 May 2026
This year, ABC Radio National’s annual Top 100 Books Countdown will focus on the theme “Australian books”, both fiction and nonfiction. The ABC said the countdown’s definition of Australian was...
NT Writers Festival 2026 festival opens
Thursday, 28 May 2026
The NT Writers Festival will return to Garramilla/Darwin today, running from 28 to 31 May under the theme “Navigating”. Panels, workshops and conversations will include appearances by writers Omar Musa,...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Ball’s “A Map and Other Parts”
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Pink Shorts Press has acquired world rights to Timmah Ball’s A Map and Other Parts. The publisher described the work as “a poetic interrogation of Australia’s relationship with the built...
Simon & Schuster acquires three Hammer novels
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) imprint Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to 3 novels by Chris Hammer from Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary, with UK rights sold to Rachel...
Bancroft receives 2026 Red Ochre Award for lifetime achievement
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Bundjalung writer and artist Bronwyn Bancroft is one of the recipients of the 2026 Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Artistic Excellence in the First Nations Arts and Culture...
Allen & Unwin acquires Wills’s “Dopamining”
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Allen and Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Dopamining by Samantha Wills, via Samuel Bernard at Zeitgeist Agency. Part memoir and part cultural commentary, Dopamining examines “how we became...
ALS Gold Medal 2026 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
The shortlist for the 2026 ALS Gold Medal, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, has been announced. The shortlisted works are: Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah, University of...
Vale Neale Daniher
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Australian Rules football player, author and co-founder of FightMND, Neale Daniher, has died, aged 65. Pan Macmillan Australia writes: Pan Macmillan Australia is deeply saddened by the passing of AFL...
